The DIAS (Data and Information access services) are cloud-based platforms developed to facilitate and standardise the access to Copernicus data and information. The platforms provide access to Sentinel data and to Copernicus operational services; they also host specific applications and tools. EARSC has been working together with the four commercial DIAS in order to publish a comparison table to highlight the main characteristics of the different platforms and make their features and functionalities clearer to users.

The table is intended to be a “work in progress” tool: it will be updated as new features are added to the four DIAS and it will be subject to constant monitoring for the accuracy of information. The following table is a summary of the main features: you can download the technical sheets to have more complete descriptions of the services available on each platform.

EARSC EO product award for 2019 will recognise a product which will support overall sustainable development projects or the implementation of the SDGs at national, regional and/or local levels, and the monitoring and reporting against the global indicator framework.

Mercator Ocean International and the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) are pleased to invite you to the kick-off event of a partnership signed between the two entities in the context of the Copernicus Programme. The Partnership is the first one of its kind with EARSC in the Copernicus Ecosystem. It will be signed during the 11th European Space Policy Conference, on 22nd January 2019 in Brussels, Belgium.

July 01, 2019

News  Programmes

THEPHILIPPINES is putting up PEDRO (Philippine Earth Data Resource Observation Center), is one of the five components of the PHL-Microsat program of Department of Science and Technology poised to be the satellite ground station and always ready to receive data and satellite images from Diwata-1 at a speed of 2.4Mpbs.

The agreement was signed in the presence of Christophe Vassal, chairman of the Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS) Board, the operator of ARGOS and a subsidiary formed by CNES and the French Ifremer institute in 1986, which – like EUMETSAT – is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

PARIS — The Luxembourg government has agreed to purchase up to 49 percent of the equity in asteroid-mining company Planetary Resources’ Luxembourg operations as part of the effort to make Luxembourg the nexus of space-based resource exploitation, an industry official said. –

Bengaluru: For the first time, under the impetus of Isro and the French Space Agency (CNES), space agencies of over 60 countries have agreed to engage their satellites, to coordinate their methods and their data to monitor human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.

NASA has signed an agreement with Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to support innovative efforts to better understand, anticipate, and monitor natural hazards, including drought, flooding, and landslides, in and around the city.

[Via Satellite 05-40-2016] Satellites will play a vital role in ensuring the agreements reached last year at the COP21 Paris Climate Conference are followed through, but more are needed, according to Jean Yves Le Gall, president of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency. Speaking April 29 at the Washington Space Business Roundtable, Le Gall said that the COP21 conference, which he regarded as perhaps the most momentous accomplishment of the decade, drove home the realization to many world leaders that satellites are an inimitable resource in the fight against anthropogenic global warming.

Belarus: Belarus will add its second remote sensing satellite, BKA-2 in the Earth orbit in 2019, said Sergei Zolotoi, Chief Designer of the Belarusian space system for the remote sensing of the Earth, Director of the enterprise Geoinformation Systems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Sergei Zolotoi told this to a website in an interview. And this sounds convincing as it takes 3-4 years to create a satellite.

The UK Space Agency and the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) are jointly funding a project to provide data processing facilities, community tools and software to help organisations better harness climate data from satellites.